Editorial Assistant, Patrick Howley, ironically, of The American Spectator, "infiltrated" a group of about 100 protesters demonstrating in the anti-Wall Street protests in Washington this Saturday and attempted to lead them in storming the National Air and Space Museum.
Hilariously, he finds himself pepper sprayed, and chased out by security, all alone.
After sneaking past the guard at the first entrance, I found myself trapped in a small entranceway outside the second interior door behind a muscle-bound left-wing fanatic and a heavyset guard. The fanatic shoved the guard and the guard shoved back, hard, sending this comrade -- and, by domino effect, me -- sprawling against the wall. After squeezing myself out from under him, I sprinted toward the door. Then I got hit.
Being pepper-sprayed is a singularly agonizing experience -- enormously painful, but even worse for a hypochondriac. When the spray begins soaking into your eyeball, swelling your eyelids and rendering them largely inoperable, it's hard not to worry that you might soon have to invest in stronger-prescription glasses.
But his mission is a success! He has determined that the Liberals are no threat. They have no ideological uniformity, they have no spine for confronting Authority(with him) and so, they clearly have no political power.
Crisis averted, 1%'ers!
Minutes earlier, I had been among those blocking major D.C. roads chanting "We're unstoppable" -- and from beneath my unshaven left-wing altar ego, I worried that we might actually be. But just as the lefties couldn't figure out how to run their assembly meeting (many process points, I'm afraid to report, were left un-twinkled), so too do they lack the nerve to confront authority. From estimates within the protest, only ten people were pepper-sprayed, and as far as I could tell I was the only one who got inside the museum.
In the absence of ideological uniformity, these protesters have no political power. Their only chance, as I saw it, was to push the envelope and go bold. But, if today's demonstration was any indicator, they don't have what it takes to even do that.
As I scrambled away from the scene of my crime, a police officer outside the museum gates pointed at my eyes, puffed out his chest, and shouted: "Yeah, that's right. That's right." He was proud that I had been pepper-sprayed, and, oddly, so was I. I deserved to get a face full of high-grade pepper, and the guards who sprayed me acted with more courage than I saw from any of the protesters. If you're looking for something to commend these days in America, start with those guards.
For my part, I'd like to commend the protesters for acting responsibly, AND the guards for giving Patrick a little spice. Hopefully any legitimate journalistic credentials he had will be reconsidered after this stunt.
...suggested storming the museum in order to state their opposition to American militarism, which they perceive as a root cause of the federal deficit.
He thought the libs were pussies because they didn't try to commit an illegal act....but if they had rolled with him, hewould have been branded terrorists and a threat to security.... so no matter the outcome, he writes a piece about how bad the movement is for America.....
He thought the libs were pussies because they didn't try to commit an illegal act....but if they had rolled with him, hewould have been branded terrorists and a threat to security.... so no matter the outcome, he writes a piece about how bad the movement is for America.....
Chainlink
Key West, FL
August 2005
OCT 10, 2011 10:04 PM